While information is a crucial part of people’s everyday lives, many people find that access to information via today’s technologies is awkward, stressful, and overly intrusive in their lives. The problem is not with the information itself, but rather with its volume and the unwieldy ways currently provided for interacting with digital content. My research focus is to create interactive informa...

Purpose – To provide a social-theoretic framework which explains how e-commerce affects social conditions, such as availability of information and equality of access to information, influences actors’ behavior, shapes e-commerce business models, and in turn impacts industry structure. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical investigation based on one-hour interviews with owners/managers of nine...

As well as conveying a message in words and sounds, the speech signal carries information about the speaker's own anatomy, physiology, linguistic experience and mental state. These speaker characteristics are found in speech at all levels of description: from the spectral information in the sounds to the choice of words and utterances themselves. This chapter presents an introduction to speech ...

Equitable access to information is one of the most vital principles in the emerging global information economy, and there is perhaps no region of the world that epitomizes the conflict between the information haves and have-nots than Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In addition to the more traditional forms of poverty, a new concept, binformation poverty,Q has emerged that better explains the true nat...

A distinction was drawn between (a) classic views of attitudes as stable dispositions based on beliefs and prior experiences accessed from memory and (b) the self-perception analysis of attitudes as relatively transitory responses dependent on current contextual cues. Access to relevant information in memory was assessed by the number of issue-related beliefs and prior experiences subjects coul...

What we have proposed is that when a listener tries to understand what a speaker means, the process he goes through can limit memory access to information that is common ground between the speaker and his addressees. [...] ...the comprehension process must keep track of common ground, and its performance will be optimal if it limits its access to that common ground. Whether its design is actual...

This paper describes a natural language system START. The system analyzes English text and automatically transforms it into an appropriate representation, the knowledge base, which incorporates the information found in the text. The user gains access to information stored a • in the knowledge base by querying it in English. The system analyzes W the query and decides through a matching process ...

The advent of modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has radically changed our ability to access information and to communicate. Whilst once information was a scarce, and hard to access resource, nowadays human attention has become the scarce resource and information (of all types and qualities) abounds. This state of things directly impacts processes of knowledge creation whic...

Hierarchies have been used for organization, summarization, and access to information, yet a lingering issue is how best to construct them. In this paper, our goal is to automatically create domain specific hierarchies that can be used for browsing a document set and locating relevant documents. We examine methods of automatically generating hierarchies and evaluating them. To this end, we comp...

172 Abstract: E-municipality is the use of ICT to transform local government by making it more accessible, effective, efficient and accountable at local level. This ranges from providing wider access to government information and promoting civic engagement and providing development opportunities. Selecting and applying a suitable model for emunicipality implementation is essential. This model s...